Ronald L. Schwary

Ronald L. Schwary was an American producer and director, born in The Dalles in 1944 and died in 2020. He won an Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Ordinary People, and his producer or executive producer credits also included Havana, Scent of a Woman, Sabrina, Meet Joe Black and Random Hearts. He worked with Sidney Pollack on Absence of Malice and on Tootsie (1982), which earned a Best Picture Academy Award nomination in 1983. A Soldier's Story brought him another Best Picture nomination in 1985. Scent of a Woman in 1992 was nominated for best picture Oscars and Golden Globes, but Schwary was not individually nominated because he served as executive producer and the academy recognized only sole producers. He produced the Rolling Stones documentary Lets Spend the Night Together in 1982, was an executive producer on The Mirror Has Two Faces, directed by Barbra Streisand, and produced the Medium television series from 2005 to 2011.